Remind me again why I became a Welsh rugby fan? 🙃

Here's Schuyler Iona Press with a song about the true meaning of Valentine's Day.

Roses are red Violets are blue So it is said Though it's often not true

Hank Green is matching the next $5,000 in donations to our trans performance festival fundraiser - which is an Ocean’s Eleven Live Reading in LA and streaming with an all-trans cast including: @vicmmic.bsky.social & more! spend @hankgreen.bsky.social’s money! Donate here! Joywholived.com/heist

Tonight's ukulele meetup songs: The Next Downtown A Train (current draft), Close to You, 2 Become 1, After Hours

its my birthday please buy my book sublimation available wherever books are sold

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

As I see Microsoft has somehow managed to ruin Notepad, I would note that I have relied on EditPad Pro for my text-editing needs for the past couple of decades, and I could not recommend it—or its free-for-personal-use cousin EditPad Lite—more enthusiastically.

It's cool that city and state officials are planning to keep flying the pride flag at Stonewall in defiance of fed orders; but it would've been cooler if they'd done so when the feds were just targeting trans flags.

Age verification? I used CompuServe.

When a headline says it all:

Today the crew of weirdo printers that I call the whistle goblins passed A HALF MILLION whistles printed and shipped. I wrote about how we got there and how you can start printing whistles yourself. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

This just happened with the pronoun labeler being deleted

CAN WE HAVE NO NICE THINGS?!?

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "It's not my book."

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 6th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants" No you don't. If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

Here is a thing: There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To. (cont'd)

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For anybody curious but not actually wanting to do the puzzle, the highlighted pronouns would appear to be HIMER, HEER, and THON, in that order.

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Holy SHIT.

Let's go with the nuclear option. 😁 "Regretting what I said when you called me 11:00 on Friday morning to tell me that at 1:00 Friday afternoon you were gonna leave your office, go downstairs, hail a cab, to go out to the airport, to catch a plane, to go skiing in the Alps for two weeks... (cont.)

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

It grinds my gears that Neil Gaiman can assault as many people as he wants and still have a new book coming out, while marginalized authors say one kinda tone deaf thing at a con once and lose their entire careers over it

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Me, tired, tapping the sign

A helpful tip: Blocking an account does not unfollow them. 17 people I follow still show up as following this trash basket, and I know at least some of y'all don't mean to be. Remember: Unfollow, THEN block!

ABOLISH LEGAL GENDER ENTIRELY We can still have social gender but legal gender only serves to enable discrimination and should be done away with like we did away with legal race for the same reason.

My kids love the online public libraries. https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16934 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jenniebreeden

Sometimes I record a one-take cover video and decide that it needs more. This was one of those times. 😅

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. 1. American Literary Transcendentalism 2. Two-Dimensional Design 3. Constitutional Law II 4. Theories of Feminism 5. Writing Nonfictional Prose

Okay, it took me three days to finally do this, BUT! You can buy whistles from us now! I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK! thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4449...

What is this shit! "plz follow the law, as you are already obligated to do, and we will give you more money" If you could enforce these deals for ICE not to do shit it's already not supposed to do, you could enforce the law right now. If you can't, you should not support giving them more money!

The uncensored version (the WP are losers) is here: www.youtube.com/shorts/sHBb4...

Holy shit this is heinous. Alejandra says down-thread that Kansas state legislature marked it up and passed it TODAY so quickly that zero resistance could be mounted. It's the first bill looking to invalidate amended trans birth certificates and licenses.

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The altnps account is the 13th most followed account on Bluesky and has more followers than every single news outlet other than the NYT, NPR and Meidas Touch on here. They actively spread misinformation and exploit gullible old people for cash. Accounts this unethical do not deserve to exist.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530

PHEW 🧵 READ THIS

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Update, @nurdrocks.bsky.social is back home. Just to be really fucking clear, I found out about this when I saw a person I respect and admire, who I look up to as a creative and community member, getting held down by five fascists on the fucking front page of reddit. Fuck ICE. Keep speaking up.

I just got back from seeing the monks and unfortunately the first texts I saw were from my friends saying that our friend Matt Allen, who performs as the musician Nur-D, was tackled, pepper sprayed, and arrested by ICE in Minneapolis, and the whole thing is on video youtu.be/xxFOENnJ7dE?...

Stop talking and fucking DO something about it, you useless ghoul.

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum came to Minneapolis from New York. Her message couldn't be clearer: This Rabbi Loves Immigrants. Here she is leading a massive gathering at Target in Minneapolis, protesting the corporation's ongoing capitulation to the Trump administration's cruelty. (Photo-Randi Weingarten)

I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."

Gandalf's "a wizard is never late, nor is he early" and Kesha's "Now, the party don't start 'til I walk in" are essentially the same sentiment